﻿Substrate influence on the emergence of the TMA systems of the Surinamese creoles

Winford, Donald; Migge, Bettina

doi:10.1075/jpcl.22.1.06win

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“…Maintaining, as does McWhorter (1998), that creolization leads to the abandonment of tone is counterintuitive against the backdrop of the extensive imposition of African substrate structures on creoles in categories that are less stable under SL agentivity than prosody (e.g. in the tense-mood-aspect system (see Winford & Migge 2007) and in the grammar of space (see Yakpo 2017)). Such a claim also has no empirical basis, as shown in §4.…”

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Romancing with tone: On the outcomes of prosodic contact

Steien¹,

Yakpo²

2020

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This article presents a descriptive and theoretical framework for the analysis of prosodic systems that have emerged from contact between African tone and European intonation-only languages. A comparative study of the prosodic systems of two Romance contact varieties, Central African French and Equatorial Guinean Spanish, shows that they feature two-tone systems, fixed word-tone patterns, tonal minimal pairs, the arbitrary assignment of tone in function words, and tonal processes. Evidence from further contact varieties and creole languages shows that similar systems evolved in other Afro-European contact ecologies. We conclude that tone is imposed by default on contact varieties and creoles that take shape in ecologies characterized by sourcelanguage agentivity in tone languages. In doing so, we argue against claims that tone necessarily cedes to stress during language contact and creolization. Instead, contact varieties and creoles partake just like other languages in the convergence processes that lead to the areal clustering of prosodic systems.*

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Romancing with tone: On the outcomes of prosodic contact

Steien¹,

Yakpo²

2020

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“…My answer: While the lexifiers might not involve these constructions, a quick look at works on the substrate languages (e.g. Da Cruz 1995, Winford 2000, Winford and Migge 2007, Durrleman-Tame 2008, and Van den Berg and Aboh 2013 indicates that 'finish'-related TMA markers developed in the creoles as a consequence of cross-linguistic influence. Some Benue-Kwa languages, for instance, involve perfective constructions with 'finish' as illustrated by the Fongbe and Yoruba examples in (3a) and (3b), respectively.…”

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Aboh

2021

JPCL

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Back to square one? Peter Bakker argues that: "a reduced, simplified contact vernacular that emerged to facilitate communication between different ethnic groups must have preceded the development of the world's creoles" (Bakker 2014: 177). In this creoles-from-pidgins view, the genesis of creoles explains their distinct phenotype: "they share a SET of features that clearly set them apart from the languages of the world" (p. 198). Bakker (2014) further claims that studies that do not adhere to this view but postulate a uniformitarian formal approach to language change and language creation (M. DeGraff) or adopt an ecological perspective to language evolution including creole languages (E. O. Aboh, U. Ansaldo, S. Mufwene) lack empirical coverage (p. 181-183) or rely on a mere recombination of linguistic features that excludes creativity. As Bakker (2014: 183, 184) concludes:Several anti-exceptionalists rely on the feature pool idea, and therefore ascribe zero percent creativity to the builders of the creole. For them, creoles combine features from lexifiers and substrates, and nothing else. That is all […] I really think it is discriminatory to claim that creolizers really could not do anything with the features except (re)combine them. It is an insult to humanity.In the following paragraphs, I first address Bakker's creoles-from-pidgins scenario briefly to show that it is inconsistent with the multilingual contexts in which pidgins and creoles emerge. Second, I address Bakker's (2014: 188) conclusion that creoles form a distinct type, based on findings in Bakker et al. (2011). Third, I answer Bakker's (2014) five questions to anti-exceptionalists showing that they pose no problem to the competition-and-selection model. Fourth, I reply to Bakker's claim that the competition-and-selection model denies creativity to the creole creators.

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“…The Gbe languages and particularly Fon (spoken in Benin), as well as the cluster of closely related lects regrouped under the name Kikongo (spoken in DRC, Congo, Angola) formed the most important (group of) substrate language(s) of the Surinamese AECs (see e.g., Huttar 1981, 1986, Arends 1996Migge 2003;Huttar, Essegbey & Ameka 2007;Winford & Migge 2007;Smith 2015b). Parallels in morphosyntax, lexis, and phonology between the Gbe and Central African Bantu languages and the Surinamese creoles have been described in great detail in a recent volume by Muysken & Smith (2015).…”

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Yakpo¹

2017

Creole Language Library

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The homogeneity of the substrate and the grammar of space in the African and Caribbean English-lexifier creoles Kofi Yakpo John Singler's principle of the homogeneity of the substrate can account for the shape of locative structures in the Afro-Caribbean English-lexifier Creoles (AECs). These are modelled on typologically highly uniform substrate and adstrate structures across a broad swath of West and Central Africa. Common to the creoles and the African languages are the scarcity of Path-incorporating prepositions, the use of general locative prepositions in static and motion events, as well as the use of pre-or postpositional relator nouns. At the same time, the grammars of space of individual AECs like Sranan (Suriname) and Pichi (Equatorial Guinea) have diverged from each other due to differing lengths of contact with the lexifier English, and contact with different European superstrate languages.

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Substrate influence on the emergence of the TMA systems of the Surinamese creoles

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Romancing with tone: On the outcomes of prosodic contact

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﻿Substrate influence on the emergence of the TMA systems of the Surinamese creoles

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Romancing with tone: On the outcomes of prosodic contact

Romancing with tone: On the outcomes of prosodic contact

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Substrate influence on the emergence of the TMA systems of the Surinamese creoles